XPR Augusta ticket holders awaiting refunds, C4 Live’s partnership with Augusta to continue

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF)– XPR Augusta was the extremely anticipated, multiday live performance collection deliberate for Masters week. It was formally cancelled every week out from the occasion, and a few ticketholders say they nonetheless haven’t gotten their a reimbursement.

Ticket gross sales to see large names like Tim McGraw and Jimmy Buffett have been halted final month resulting from points with the grounds at Lake Olmstead Stadium.

Commissioner Brandon Garrett says the occasion organizers, C4 Dwell, did make an effort to restore the stadium in time.

“You’ll be able to see the place they’ve gutted a lot of the within of the stadium, they’ve torn out a part of the stands, there’s been loads of mould remediation that was performed as a result of that stadium had sat there for fairly a couple of years. There’s loads of work that has already been performed,” Commissioner Garrett stated.

However the grounds weren’t prepared in time, so the concert events have been formally cancelled on March thirtieth.

C4 Dwell stated tickets bought by means of their web site could be refunded inside 14 days of cancellation.

However many ticketholders say they nonetheless haven’t seen their cash.

“Clearly, that point has handed,” ticket holder Marissa Coyne stated. “It’s irritating, it’s disappointing.”

Wednesday ticketholders obtained an electronic mail from C4 Dwell saying partially, “As a result of excessive quantity of cancellations, further refunds could not start processing for as much as 20 days from the posted cancellation date.”

“I feel essentially the most irritating half is that we bought these tickets months and months in the past so that they basically have our cash,” Coyne stated.

Commissioner Garrett says the live performance’s cancellation is not going to be the top of C4 Dwell’s relationship with the Metropolis of Augusta. He says C4 Dwell will proceed investing within the stadium.

“I’ve requested some questions with reference to how a lot has already been spent. It has been upwards of $600,000 to $700,000 already. They’ve assured over $3 million that they are going to be spending there and which will even go larger as they work to search out an engineering answer to the grounds scenario,” Commissioner Garrett stated.

Commissioners say the Metropolis of Augusta nor its taxpayers have misplaced any cash to this undertaking.

However, at the least for now, some ticketholders are left holding the bag.

“Hopefully they’ve the cash to refund everyone. I suppose we’ll wait and see how that performs out,” ticket holder Jim Homosexual stated.

To this point, 400 tickets have been refunded. C4 Dwell tells NewsChannel 6 in an announcement, “C4 Dwell is just not in a position to share whole ticket gross sales however will present further updates and knowledge because the refund course of is totally accomplished.”